Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
The hooker was young, pretty... and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again - and that's where Matthew Scudder comes in. But this assignement carries the unmistakeable stench of sleaze and perversion, luring ex-cop-turned-investigator Scudder into a sordid world of phony religion and murderous lust where children must die for their parents' mosy secret, unspeakable sins.

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers. A Matthew Scudder Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 038076363X (April, 2002), 293 p., $7.50.

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
The first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film, starring Liam Neeson.

A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment.

The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell.

As far as the NYPD is concerned, the case is closed.

But ex-cop Matt Scudder, is persuaded to look into the case by the dead girl's father. And suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption, phoney religious cults and murderous lust.

In New York's underbelly, the children have no choice but to pay the price for their parent's most unspeakable sins...

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers. A Matthew Scudder Mystery. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752834525 (July, 2000), 182 p., £5.99.

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell and as far as the NYPD is concerned the case is closed. Matt Scudder, an ex-cop who now does "favours for friends", is persuaded to look into the case by the dead girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption, phoney religious cults and murderous lust. In New York's underbelly the children have no choice but to pay the price for their parent's most unspeakable sins...

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers. The First Matthew Scudder Mystery. Phoenix, ISBN: 1857994132 (January, 1997), 182 p., £4.99 (?).

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
The hooker was young, pretty... and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again - and that's where Matthew Scudder comes in. But this assignement carries the unmistakeable stench of sleaze and perversion, luring ex-cop-turned-investigator Scudder into a sordid world of phony religion and murderous lust where children must die for their parents' mosy secret, unspeakable sins.

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers. A Matthew Scudder Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 038076363X (September, 1991), 304 p., $4.50.

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers (USA 1982)

From the Publisher:
A young Greenwich Village hooker is slashed to death in her bedroom. A homosexual youth is picked up at the scene, blood dripping from his hands. Thirty-six hours later, he's found dead, hanging in his cell. For the NYPD the case is closed. For Matthew Scudder it's only beginning...

Matt Scudder. He's as tough as they come, with a penchant for booze and a soft spot for innocent kids. He's not a cop. He's not even a private eye. He's just a man who won't stop until he finds the truth -- no matter what the price.

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers. A Matthew Scudder Novel. Jove, ISBN: 0515067296 (October, 1982), 186 p., $2.75.

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers (USA 1976)

From the Publisher:
DEAD MEAT
The victim was a savagely butchered young Greenwich Village hooker. The accused killer was the homosexual youth who was her roommate. When the suspect hanged himself in his cell everybody was happy...

- except Matt Scudder. Scudder was being paid to find out the truth about the dead pair of unlikely lovebirds -- no matter how many people it hurt, how many reputations it destroyed, how many seething secrets it exposed...

MATT SCUDDER is a New York-based private detective, boiled a little harder, a little tougher than most Big Apple gumshoes -- he has to be -- he operates without a license!

Lawrence Block: The Sins of the Fathers. Matt Scudder - New York's answer to Lew Archer. Dell No. 7991 (August, 1976), 189 p., $1.25.